However these ratings were achieved with families performing a uniform task that served to anchor the interaction and provide cues for rater judgment.

For while Blair made, and makes, a cogent, cerebral case for his New Labourism, Gordon Brown had the previous day approached the same task - anchoring current policy in old time ideals - via a different route.

Gold anchored national economies, providing the basis for their currencies.

Origen

Old Englishancor, ancra, via Latin from Greekankura; reinforced in Middle English by Old Frenchancre. The current form is from anchora, an erroneous Latin spelling. The verb (from Old Frenchancrer) dates from Middle English.

Frases

at anchor

1

(Of a ship) moored by means of an anchor:thirty ships lay at anchor here the day before

drop anchor

He found a safe site on the coast of South Africa where future sailing ships could drop anchor to pick up fresh water and food.

Fair Isle's residents are surprisingly used to seeing strangers strolling around their land ever since cruise ships first dropped anchor off their shores.

Best of all, the new docking arrangement would eliminate the need for some ships to drop anchor in the harbor, a true improvement, most anyone would agree, over the time-consuming nuisance of having to travel back and forth by tender.